Rick Blume

Lantos Technologies, Inc. develops intra-aural 3D ear scanning systems for the custom earpiece market. Its technology enables audiologists to eliminate the uncomfortable, messy, and error-prone technique that used to generate impressions of the ear canal. The firm provides 3D scanner that measures ear canal shape and tissue compliance to produce a map of the ear canal. It also offers noise protection devices for military and industrial markets, and consumer audio earphones. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

Part of Medtronic Plc, EdenTec Corp is a company that specializes in patient monitoring equipment. The company is based in Hayward, CA.

Part of W World Corp., Oculon Corp is a pharmaceutical concern. Oculon was acquired by W World Corp. on April 13, 1995 for $4 million.

CB Health Ventures venture capital firm located in Boston

TransMedics, Inc. manufactures and develops medical devices. It offers a portable warm blood perfusion system designed to maintain organs in a functioning state outside the human body during transport from organ donor to recipient. The firm’s products are used in heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants. The company was founded by Waleed H. Hassanein in August 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Abt Associates, Inc. provides research and consulting services. It offers greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, low-emission development strategies, environmental research, air quality regulatory support, decision-support tools and IT solutions, ecological risk assessment, economic and regulatory analysis, value chain development, housing policies and programs, health systems strengthening, and workforce development. The company was founded by Clark Abt on January 12, 1965 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

PathoGenetix, Inc. operates as a commercial-stage developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial identification from complex samples. Its Genome Sequence Scanning technology isolates and analyzes DNA from an enriched biological sample, without the need for a cultured isolate. The firm specializes in food safety, industrial microbiology, and clinical diagnostics and research. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Part of Humana, Inc., Capital Health Management Group LLC provides investment services. The company is based in Charlotte, NC.

Excel Medical Ventures LLC (Excel Medical Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Steven R. Gullans. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.